BERLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For the first time, an economic model has been presented that estimates the burden of calendar-based in-office follow-up for patients with cardiac implantable electrical devices (CIED) in Germany and the United Kingdom (UK). On November 6, at the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) 14th Annual European Congress in Madrid, Spain, BIOTRONIK presented a series of four posters highlighting the healthcare burden of following-up pacemaker, implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) and cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) patients in Germany and the UK.